Main Event Day 1a | 2014 partypoker World Poker Tour Merit North Cyprus Classic

09-05-2014 20:59 UTC+3

The Champs Are Back

Frank Op de Woerd

Level 7 : 250/500, 75 ante

Alexey Rybin, who won last years event for $258,000, has just registered. Rybin, like everyone else, got 30,000 to work with.

Also back in the game are Sotirios Koutoupas (EPT Deauville winner), and Toby Lewis (EPT Vilamoura winner).

Player	Chips	Progress
Sotirios Koutoupas	30,000 30,000	30,000
Toby Lewis	30,000 30,000	30,000
Alexey Rybin	30,000 30,000	30,000

Tags: Alexey Rybin Toby Lewis Sotirios Koutoupas

09-05-2014 20:45 UTC+3

Three More Levels

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 7 : 250/500, 75 ante

A total of 151 players have entered so far, with 12 re entries, making for a total of 163. 116 players remain at the moment.

Level: 7

Blinds: 250/500

Ante: 75

09-05-2014 19:44 UTC+3

Dinner Break

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

The remaining 114 players are on their one hour dinner break.

09-05-2014 19:43 UTC+3

Dempsey Triples, Panyak Busts

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Maxim Panyak found himself all in for 7,750, James Dempsey had 10,300, and a third player had both players covered and made the call as well.

Dempsey had the best hand with , which was in a race against Panyak's . The button had .

None would improve. The board proved catastrophic for Panyak, while Dempsey almost trippled up.

Player	Chips	Progress
James Dempsey	29,350 9,250	9,250

Maxim Panyak	Busted

Tags: Maxim Panyak James Dempsey

09-05-2014 19:42 UTC+3

Player	Chips	Progress
Dmitry Gromov	122,000 46,000	46,000

Nicolas Chouity	63,150 32,050	32,050
Andrey Pateychuk	58,000 21,600	21,600

Vyacheslav Stoyanov	56,000 8,000	8,000
Mickey Petersen	48,000 21,350	21,350
Alexander Lakhov	45,275 3,275	3,275

Vladimir Troyanovskiy	44,000 14,000	14,000
Paul Tedeschi	43,000 13,000	13,000
Mark Darner	43,000 10,900	10,900
Sam Trickett	38,000 8,000	8,000
Oliver Price	34,000 2,000	2,000
Louis Salter	22,000 2,500	2,500
Dominik Nitsche	17,500 19,500	19,500

Sevket Yildiz	16,075 39,925	39,925
Manig Loeser	14,000 12,000	12,000
Mustafa Meryumoglu	Busted

Out And In

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Vladimir Troyanovskiy has bought back in, while EPT Vilamoura winner Toby Lewis, and recent EPT Barcelona finalist Andrey Shatilov have been eliminated. Lewis ran with queens into kings, and is going to buy back in after the dinner break that starts in twenty minutes. We don't know for sure if Shatilov will be joining him, but we suspect so.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vladimir Troyanovskiy	30,000 30,000	30,000
Toby Lewis	Busted
Andrey Shatilov	Busted

Tags: Andrey Shatilov Toby Lewis Vladimir Troyanovskiy

09-05-2014 19:08 UTC+3

Meryumoglu's Top Pair and Top Kicker No Good

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Frank Op de Woerd

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Mustafa Meryumoglu opened under the gun, and received no less than four calls: the player to his immediate left, Dmitry Nemirovsky on the button, Sevket Yildiz in the small blind, and the player in the big blind.

Both blinds checked to Meryumoglu who continuation bet for 2,500. Both the player under the gun plus one, and Nemirovsky on the button called, both blinds folded.

The fell on the turn and Meryumoglu bet out 4,000. The player in early position raised to 9,200, and Nemirovsky folded, Meryumoglu made the call.